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AI is transforming weather forecasting − and that could be a game changer for farmers around the world

By The Conversation via Reuters Connect September 3, 2025

In many low- and middle-income countries, accurate weather forecasts remain out of reach, limited by the high technology costs and infrastructure demands of traditional forecasting models. A new wave of AI-powered weather forecasting models has the potential to change that.

Crops, Equipment, Machinery

CNH launches photo feature to identify parts

Equipment owners can take a photo of a part and use an AI-based feature to find a replacement online

By Scott Garvey September 2, 2025

Owners of CNH tractors looking for a replacement part can take a photo of the part and upload that photo to a website, which will then identify it and find the necessary replacement.

Dr. Nasem Badreldin, assistant professor in the University of Manitoba's Department of Soil Science, explains how landscapes shift through zones of stability, recovery, degradation and vulnerability during a presentation at the University of Manitoba on May 28, 2025. Photo: Webinar screenshot.

Crops, Wheat & Chaff

Catching a landscape before it crashes

Using simulations to study landscape resilience

By Don Norman September 1, 2025

A University of Manitoba soil scientist is using AI and satellite data to explore how Prairie landscapes respond to long-term stress — and how they bounce back.

News

Agi3’s AI-powered individualized farm insurance products win innovation prize

Awards handed out at Ag in Motion 2025

By Geralyn Wichers July 16, 2025

Agi3’s AI-powered individualized farm insurance products won the business solutions prize in the Innovations Program Awards prior to the Agriculture in Motion farm show in Langham, Saskatchewan.

Crops, Machinery

Artificial intelligence put to work on extension

Farm Credit Canada, Results Driven Agriculture Research unveil AI tool designed to produce ‘timely advice’ for farmers

By Robert Arnason July 9, 2025

Farm Credit Canada and Results Driven Agriculture Research (RDAR) have unveiled a generative artificial intelligence tool called Root

GrowPro

Evaluating new tech, products and practices

There is always something new around the corner, so how do crop consultants filter out the noise and arrive at a reliable recommendation for their clients?

By Lee Hart April 26, 2025

With new products, new production practices and new technology converging in the agriculture industry at a frenetic pace, independent agronomists and crop advisors try to sort the wheat from the proverbial chaff as they advise clients on what might or might not work on an individual farm. Not only has the pace of introducing new […] Read more

DeKalb campaign marketing lead Nikki Vercaigne introduces a canola development panel including Dale Burns, Liz Simpson and Xuehua Zhang (l-r) at Ag in Motion.

Canola, Canola Production Guide, Guides

New tools clear paths for canola’s next steps

Gene editing, artificial intelligence bring new efficiencies to the process

By Dave Bedard September 3, 2024

Recent technological advancements applied to canola breeding are already making selection a more efficient process. On an industry panel during Ag in Motion in July, asked about what’s next in the canola development pipeline, breeders and developers with Bayer spoke of the new processes and pathways they can now use to get there. One significant […] Read more

Esther Kimani (right) received the Africa Prize for Engineering Innovation from the Royal Academy of Engineering in 2024 for developing the Early Crop Pest and Disease Detection Device. Photo: Royal Academy of Engineering

Machinery, News, Reuters

Solar dry, soldier fly, AI: Africans fight hunger with innovation

By Kim Harrisberg, Reuters August 2, 2024

Alongside container farms in South Africa cultivating soldier flies for animal feed, solar-powered fish and crop dryers in Tanzania and machine-learning pest detectors in Kenya, Africans are coming up with innovative solutions to overcome the effects of climate change on food production.

The Stratus AirSprayer is essentially a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones. Photo: Supplied

Machinery, News

Paraglider powers a new kind of sprayer

By Mark Halsall July 17, 2024

The Stratus AirSprayer is different than the quadcopters and fixed-wing UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) typically associated with ag drones. Essentially, it’s a powered paraglider — one that can carry heavier loads and stay aloft much longer than conventional drones.

Canola, Crops, Features

Machine learning may help get a leg up on blackleg

AI-backed research results may help growers better manage the risk of blackleg in canola crops

By Jim Timlick April 16, 2024

Results of a recent study by researchers in Manitoba and Alberta could help growers fight blackleg disease in canola more effectively. The study was done by a team of researchers at the University of Manitoba led by Dilantha Fernando, a professor in the school’s plant science department. They were joined by Michael Harding, a plant […] Read more

GFM Network News

Prairie Wheat Weekly: Prices rise as harvest ends

Canadian agriculture minister MacDonald headed to Mexico

Farmers, traders ‘flying blind’ as U.S. shutdown blocks key crop data

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